Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Calcium Light Turned on by a Railway Trackman: Containing Historical Facts of Great Value to All Classes of Railway Employes
The purpose for which this book IS published is to strongly im press upon the minds of all maintenance-of-way employes that if they Wish to have their burdens made lighter and their lives made brighter - if they Wish to have their many grievances properly adjusted - the remedy lies Within themselves. Whining Will not help them. Prayers and petitions Will be alike in vain. The only source of relief is organization. The only remedy is united, per sis'i'ent action. Such action can only be had where the men eu gaged in it are possessed of three sterling traits of character, to wit courage, fidelity and fortitude - courage to undertake; fidelity to continue, and fortitude to endure Without murmuring the trials and deprivations incident to all great movements for the estab lishment of better conditions, higher ideals and greater liberties for the mass of mankind It was the possession of these noble qualities which enabled the maintenance-of-wav men on the Canadian pacific Railway to Win the most memorable struggle in which members of their craft were ever engaged - a contest in which the humble and unlettered trackmen were not only opposed by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (perhaps the greatest and richest transportation company in the world), but also, through the General Managers Asso ciation, by every transportation company on the North American con tinent. The story of that famous struggle is brie?y told in the fol lowmg pages. Plain facts are submitted, embracing all correspond ence between the railway officials and the maintenance-of-way men's representatives, and between said representatives and their constitu ents, as well as other letters and press comments which are of interest in this connection because of the Side lights which they shed upon the controversy. The author has not attempted to embellish the story of the C. P. Strike with any literary frills or furbelows, and does not ask that this book be treasured as a literary gem; but he does hope that It will be appreciated by that much-abused and long suffering class of railway employes known as maintenance-of-way men, for whose benefit it is intended, and who may learn from a close perusal of its pages how to fight their own battles for better con ditions and how TO win.
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